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Staring at the total solar eclipse this summer can burn your retina

By Ariane Le Chevallier May 10, 2017

Retina expert Thomas Hwang, M.D. warns that looking at the solar eclipse without protection can cause permanent damage in seconds.

OHSU’s Zach Harris and Andrew Watson among Portland Business Journal’s 2017 ‘Forty under 40’ awardees

By Tracy Brawley May 09, 2017

Portland Business Journal names their 2017 'Forty under 40.'

National Nurses Week: Recognizing nursing excellence at OHSU

By Kristyna Wentz-Graff May 09, 2017

Much has changed in the nursing profession, but what remains the same is nurses at OHSU continue to “help patients stay safe and achieve the highest possible quality outcomes they can."

Time to raise Oregon’s tobacco sales age to protect kids, save lives

By Kristyna Wentz-Graff May 08, 2017

Each year, 1,800 Oregon kids become new daily smokers. That’s five kids a day who start a lifetime of deadly addiction that increases their risk for cancer, heart disease and early death. Unless current smoking rates decline, 68,000 Oregon kids alive today will die prematurely from tobacco-related illnesses.

Research Week 2017: Empowering patients, families, physicians through research

By Tracy Brawley May 05, 2017

Katharine Zuckerman, M.D., M.P.H., splits her time seeing young patients at OHSU Doernbecher Children’s Hospital and researching the relationships between health care disparities and early childhood development.

Are kids with autism getting the services they need? Study says no.

By Tracy Brawley May 04, 2017

Data suggests the most effective interventions for children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, should access therapies offered at school and in health care settings.

OHSU opposes American Health Care Act

May 04, 2017

OHSU is opposed to the American Health Care Act (AHCA) the House of Representatives passed today.

Research Week 2017: Kids will be kids. But, why?

By Tracy Brawley May 04, 2017

Sarah Feldstein Ewing, Ph.D. is researching ways to improve treatment approaches tailored specifically for teens by analyzing how adolescent brains respond to therapist language.

Research Week 2017: Understanding the brain: ‘We’ve got a lot of work to do’

By Erik Robinson May 04, 2017

Kevin Wright, Ph.D. is an assistant professor running his own laboratory in OHSU’s Vollum Institute, where he applies his natural curiosity toward solving one of the most formidable puzzles in science and medicine: how the nervous system works.

Research Week 2017: An OB-GYN who crosses borders and pushes boundaries

By Ariane Le Chevallier May 03, 2017

Maria Isabel Rodriguez, M.D., M.P.H., cares for patients at the OHSU Center for Women’s Health and finds satisfaction in supporting women, particularly teens, through important or challenging life events. As with many faculty members at OHSU, her clinical work drives her research.

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